XXXII LAST EGD POST

This is the last post for my EGD Journey blog, thank you for joining me on this journey for the past 16 weeks. Can't believe I'm close to ending a semester of poly life, seems like school just started yesterday..

Though there were many challenges along the way, like because I'm more of a left-brain thinker (I think that I am), EGD has never been easy for me. But I guess overall, EGD wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It's probably the first design related lesson that I enjoy. From learning the basics like theory/principles of design to the more hands-on - Photoshop, Illustrator and not to forget InDesign.

I enjoyed the process of getting your final work done, though it wasn't easy. I think the satisfaction you get after seeing your final work complete is what pushes me to go on. This is a set of skills that I'm glad I've learnt, even though I may or may not end up in magazine production or related stuffs. It has made me appreciate and look at publications in a different light, due to the access of "behind-the-scenes"work.

A BIG thank you to Ms Teh for making lessons so much more interesting and easier to digest! Though this assignment is a long one, I've never seen it as an assignment anyway. EGD lessons is coming to an end for this semester and I think it has indeed been a fruitful one.

I'll miss this place

XXXI Group Project (3)

We barely started on our group project and finally got down to work today. Man, it's tough. We were kind of lost because we don't know where or what to start on first. And seeing all our other classmates doing fine wasn't exactly encouraging either but it pushes us to get the work done.

We started on our style sheet first but we spent a lot of time deciding what fonts to use, would this be better etc. Looking for the pictures wasn't easy either because we wanted this picture to be of a certain angle but no pictures on the net we found could fit. Also, we used only one computer to do our work but we realized that it was slower this way and decided to spilt up the work.

Everyone's down to doing a certain part of the final work and we'll come together to show what we have tomorrow. Let's hope we can get at least 80% done tomorrow!!

don't give up now, the finishing line is near. 

XXX Group Project (2)

This week's studio B was spent on discussing more details on our group project. The pictures below shows our final draft. Changes have been made after consulting Ms Teh and I can't wait to see the end product on screen! 

However, because the pictures we want/plan to use are not easy to find, that we even thought of going down to Sentosa and take photos ourselves!?! We were asked to look for the pictures we want to use first, before getting down to do up the newsletter. Here's to more 'squinting eyes' session to look for pictures! 

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XXIX Group Project (1)

Because we got stuck for our design and we were lost for creative ideas, (or rather because there were many submissions to be done before this), my group decided to go to Google and search for some inspiration. We managed to find quite a number of good designs that we plan to use. (Keyword: plan, may or may not use at the end of the day.) Here's a couple of pictures of what we found!

 

XXVIII Group Project

The group project is to create a newsletter using InDesign and Photoshop (pictures). After much discussion, my group has decided to do a newsletter for Sentosa's club members, also known as 'Islanders'. The newsletter would include past events, what's going to happen in the next few months, some good-to-know facts, ads and benefits of the Islanders.

We struggled at just thinking of what our newsletter should be about. Which was really funny because everyone was already starting on their draft and our group was stuck at what we're going to. We decided on RWS Sentosa at first, but it wasn't approved because we didn't have a 'main idea' or rather what the newsletter is for so Ms Teh suggested that we could use our idea of Sentosa though and therefore, the Islanders came about.

Hoping for this journey to be smooth, wish us luck!

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XXVII InDesign II

hello there, 

Last week, we had another exercise on InDesign again. I think this one is more tough compared to the previous one. Because just for the picture (the black & white prison), I had to shift the frame(blue box) of the photo and the photo itself(brown box) to match the original sample. 

Also, I think trying to make sure everything is aligned is another challenge. And that's one big thing to take note when using InDesign. Because when everything is not aligned, it would seemed as messy. Like for example, the words in the columns had to be aligned such that it would be neater for the audience to read.

The one on the left is the original and the one on the right is my version. Not completely done with it yet but I think I'm almost there. (Somehow I can't complete it at home because it was said that the version of my InDesign and Mac Lab's is different.) 

Still prefer InDesign to the the other two, even though all requires straining of eyes haha. 

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XXVI Diagrams for layout of newsletters

For lessons this week, we learnt about the different kinds of diagrams to guide us on how should our layout be for our group assignment - Newsletter.

Golden Triangle:
spiral indicated page that will first capture attention more

Villard's diagram:
To get the diagram,
1st step: draw diagonal lines from both bottom corner of the page to the blue line.
2nd step: draw diagonal lines from the same point to both top corner.
Note: Text should not exceed the purple line but pictures can.
          Set to 25.4 cause x2
          Gutter divided into 2

Columns Grid System:
No. of columns don't matter. Can be 4/6 columns. They are just guides.

Ms Teh's tip: Be sure of your layout and plan to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. 

With all these diagrams stuck in my head, how to look at publications the same way haha.

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